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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Why Linux and Arch/KISS philosophy in general is so great

Okay, so I've been off-line for awhile working on my thesis and also building a new machine for doing GIS/modeling work. I decided to go with the lovely EVGA SR-2 mobo and a pair of low/mid-range Xeons w/ HT enabled. I also decided on going with 12*4GB DDR3-1600 sticks to populate the DIMM slots.

This is much different that my previous configuration (the Skulltrail rig) because it has newer chipsets w/ USB3 and SATA6 support and HT processors. Also, to complicate things further, my system is sitting on 6 GPT partitioned disks with RAID10,f2 and LVM. I'm booting using Grub2 and a custom config file so that boot and root can be part of the RAID+LVM. I was initially planning to completely re-install Arch and get everything working with the new hardware when I decided to just try to boot the current system using the fallback initrd image. Booted right up the very first try and with a simple mkinitcpio command is back in business. Everything is working "out of the box" including my SATA hot-swap bays that caused a BSOD on Win7 even with the proper driver installed. Even the much maligned Marvell 91xx SATA6 controller is working without issue.

Priceless!

I'm not convinced that any OS besides Linux or maybe BSD could have done this transition without a full re-install. In fact, I'm not sure that any of the supposedly more user friendly Linux distros could have pulled it off due to complications from their overly complex configuration schemes and automatic tools.

Last edited by iBertus (2011-03-02 20:04:21)

kaivalagi

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From: Norwich, UK

Registered: 2009-11-05

Posts: 145

Re: Why Linux and Arch/KISS philosophy in general is so great

Can't complain about that, should churn through the bits once setup properly!

I find the trouble with Linux of any flavour is that I have no reason to upgrade my hardware, I am still running quad core 6600 cpus in an old 775 board....I might just treat myself after reading things like this

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,360

Re: Why Linux and Arch/KISS philosophy in general is so great

May I redirect you to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=12926

Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but let's not have many of these threads all round the forums, eh? Would make it hard to notice the 'real' discussion and questions, what with everyone thinking Arch is the bee's knees and all that

Closing.

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